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Abbas' blunder Last week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas signed papers to join the International Criminal Court in the Hague, the first step to seeking war crimes charges against Israeli leaders.…[I]t's a grievous mistake that will cost the Palestinian people. The U.S. provides about $440 million a year in economic aid to the Palestinian Authority.…By law, it will be suspended if the Palestinians take action against Israel at the International Criminal Court. Israel has taken its own first step in response. Israeli media reported [last] weekend that the government has halted the transfer of about $125 million in tax revenue Israel collects on behalf...

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Abbas' blunder
Last week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas signed papers to join the International Criminal Court in the Hague, the first step to seeking war crimes charges against Israeli leaders.…[I]t's a grievous mistake that will cost...

Gaza remains in rubble, and so does the Israel-Palestinian peace process. The latest talks collapsed in April, though it feels longer ago given the summer of violence that came afterward.
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Is it any wonder that an overwhelming majority of Americans of all backgrounds continue to support Israel until a more constructive and positive Palestinian Arab leadership emerges to accept the olive branch of peace offered on numerous occasions?
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The U.S. Congress is dysfunctional; yet constituents keep sending lawmakers back. Ergo the voters are also dysfunctional. The result is the perpetuation of a government that works against the voters' own best interests.
The nation's unemployment rate...

After reading Zahi Khouri's guest column on Sept. 26, I was left aghast by the assertion that "Israel must do more..." Israel wants nothing more than for the West Bank and Gaza to function independently and without interference. The open...

CBS' Hillary-Leoni dream
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Breadstick war heats up
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Last year, I was full of hope that there could be a negotiated solution and peace between Palestinians and Israelis. I joined several of my colleagues in launching Breaking the Impasse, an initiative that we believed would lead Palestinian and Israeli...

Jody Williams, who received the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to ban land mines, is a hero of mine. In my 2008 book, "The Broken American Male," I wrote: "On the day Jody won, she criticized the American government, President Clinton...

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They both want peace. This photo of the two men standing on a street in New York City went viral on Facebook this week. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Israel with the hope that she can negotiate a temporary cease-fire between the Israeli governm

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The immigrant experience gets a fresh, post- 9/11 Palestinian spin in Amreeka, a film that has all the familiar ingredients but is such a well-acted, winning re-combination of those that we see them with fresh eyes.
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Helen Thomas, whoÂ covered the White House since the Kennedy administration,Â abruptly quit her job today after controversial remarks about Israel. She had been a columnist for Hearst News Service, but had spent most of her career with United Press

The New England Conference of the United Methodist Church has updated its report urging the divestment in companies who support the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. Nine companies have been added to the report first published in 2007 based on their pres

Palestinians urging a boycott of Israeli products have begun confiscating goods in the West Bank, a movement leader said Tuesday, after activists dumped a truckload of Israeli milk and yogurt in a main square to the cheers of supporters. Activists will...

Most West Bank shops no longer carry the products of six major Israeli food companies, as a boycott triggered by rising Israeli-Palestinian tensions is taking hold, a boycott leader said Sunday. Activists in the Fatah movement of Palestinian President...